As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were, in some way, inspired by fiction from the magazine’s past. Each new piece ...

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The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

The author reads her story from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine.

Is a River Alive?, by Robert Macfarlane (Norton). Rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada provide the settings for this elegant travelogue, which asks whether a natural entity, such as a river, can be ...

“I’m ready for the exciting last thirty seconds of the basketball game which stretch into twenty-five minutes of fouls, time-outs, and commercials.” A drawing that riffs on the latest news and ...

Out of interest, could this be the best beginning to the sixth chapter of any book, by anyone, ever? The girl with the stringy blond hair over her shoulders and the trading beads and the black ...

The recent reopening of the Metropolitan Museum’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing—a spectacular treasury of art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas—was fortuitously timed. The renovation, which cost ...

A great silence opened up inside her. But that made it sound more dramatic than it was. It happened by degrees, creeping up slyly. And at times, in certain places and situations, it was expected and ...

My father worked nights as the desk attendant at a cheap hotel downtown. It was a thankless job behind bulletproof glass, which was all he had to shield him from demented drunks and screeching ...

To celebrate its centenary, The New Yorker invited fiction writers to contribute stories inspired by works from the archive, then to explain why those works inspired them. Sign up to receive the ...

To celebrate its centenary, The New Yorker invited fiction writers to contribute stories inspired by works from the archive, then to explain why those works inspired them. Sign up to receive the ...